Works Fully Offline
Works fully without a SIM card. Add one for remote monitoring and over-the-air updates.
Fully offline
Librescoot works without any internet connection. Every core feature works offline:
- Navigation with local map tiles and routing engine
- Alarm using the onboard accelerometer
- Firmware updates via Update Mode (USB Mass Storage) or over Bluetooth from your phone
- Dashboard with speedometer, battery, and all vehicle data
No SIM card, no cloud account, no subscriptions needed.
Online extras
If you install a SIM card in the scooter's 4G modem slot, you get additional features:
- Cloud access: see your scooter's status, position, and battery level from anywhere, and control it remotely. Works with the Librescoot uplink or third-party cloud services
- Over-the-air updates delivered automatically
- Online map tiles without downloading offline packages
- Remote routing via a Valhalla server
Bringing your scooter online → — soldering the SIM holder, setting the APN, and configuring OTA updates.
USB updates
Without a SIM card, firmware updates and map files are transferred via USB. The scooter exposes a virtual drive when switched to Update Mode. Copy files to the drive, eject, and the scooter processes them automatically.
Bluetooth updates
Since 1.2 the scooter can also take a firmware bundle over Bluetooth, which means no SIM card and no USB cable. Send the update from the companion app (Anastasis, "stasis for unu"); bluetooth-service stages the bundle where update-service expects it, and the normal install and reboot flow takes over from there.
Both full .mender images and .delta artifacts work, for the MDB as well as the DBC.
The receiving side ships in 1.2, so this covers updates from 1.2 onwards. Getting to 1.2 in the first place still needs USB or a SIM.